The Sun. — London, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty took an airing on horseback yesterday in the Parks and the environs, for two hours and a half. Her Majesty %vas attended by Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzen, Lady Mary Stopford, Marquis Conyngham, the Earl of Fingal, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and Sir George Quentin. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow at St. James's Palace after the Levee. Lord Glenelg had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. Viscount Melbourne, the Treasurer of the Household, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord George Paget, and the Hon. General Arthur Upton joined the Royal Circle at dinner yesterday. The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards attended during dinner at the Palace. The Bavarian and Turkish Ambassadors, and the Charge d'Affaires from Spain, transacted business yesterday at the Fo reign Department. The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, and the Adjutant-General, transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Department. Lord John Russell, Lord Glenelg, and Lord Minto, visited Lord Melbourne yesterday, at his house in South-street. The Attorney-General for Ireland and Lord Morpeth tran sacted business yesterday at the Homo Department. Mr. Poulett Thomson transacted business yesterday at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's office, in Downing-street. A Deputation from the India Steam-ship Company (by way of the Cape of Good Hope), headed by Sir John Ross, R.N., bad an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. the President of the India Board. Mr. Stevenson (the American Minister) visited Lord Pal merston and Lord Glenelg on Saturday, at the Foreign and Colonial offices. The Earl of Roseberry, Colonel Doyle, and Mr. J. Poynder had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Down ing -street. The Russian and French Ambassadors, and the Prussian, Belgian, and Spanish Ministers transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Marquis of Sligo, Lord Hill, and Major Maenamara b ad interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Offi ce. Despatches from Upper Canada were received at the Colo nial Office yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Depart ment from Lord Granville, the British Ambassador at Paris ; and from the English Ministers resident at the Courts of Brus sels and the Hague. PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. The second Concert for the season of the above Society, took place at Hanover-square last night. Although a longer Concert than usual at these meetings, not terminating till long After eleven o'clock, we do not consider it, on the whole, either in point of selection or execution, so good as that with which the season commenced. The opening piece was Beetho ven's Sinfonia No. 8, in F major, the last but one of those immortal productions to which there can be found no parallel in the whole range of the art. There is a peculiar simpli city E ;nd playfulness of style in this sinfonia, and a singular originac.'ty in the motivo of the allegretto, evincing the won derful resi:mrces of the author, who appears not only to escape the intrusive ideas of other writers, but never to fall into the too common fault of repeating his own. There is also scarcely auother instance of a composer who has written pieces of a distinct character. The style of Handel, of Haydn, and of Mozart, may be always immediately recognized, but each one of the works of Beethoven stands alone, as it were a dis tinct picture. With all the uncertainty of their going at these .concerts, (the only place, by-the-bye, where they can be hoard at all,) they are still a great intellectual treat. On this occnsion, the scherzo was encored. In the first part of the concert, Mr. Willman played a concerto on the clarinet, with all that beauty of style, fine quality of tone, and perfect exe cution, for wi2ich he is so deservedly eminent. The concerto waslby Mozart, but, we should think, one of the early works of that composer, all of which are not worthy of his name. It was a very insipid production, even in the hands of Willman, and if left out altogether, many amongst the auditory would not have been altogether displeased. An overture of Mendel sohn (the Isles of Fingal) concluded the first part. It is throughout very beautiful, but is deficient in that energy usually displayed by this very successful composer. Sinfonia, No. 8, of Haydn, which commenced the second part, is an Acknowledged fine composition, but either in consequence of the 4 orchestra not executing it so well as they might have done, Alr from the superior character of the splendid effort of Beeth oven at the commencement of the evening, its effect was fiat. The leader and the conductor, Messrs. Mori and Bishop, did not ~, c em to act cordially together. There wants some " re format:ion" in respect to these leaders and conductors; the present system does not answer. Marschner's overture to the which concluded the concert, is a noisy, un- Vampyr.g," meaning affair. A quartett of Beethoven's for two violins, tenor, and violoncello, was played in the course of the even ing, by Messrs. Loder, Watts, Tolbecque, and Lindley. It was the very beautilul quartett in A, so well known, and so wreat a favourite amongst the amateurs. Loder played well, Lad was much applauded; but, with all deference to those I, lplo expressed so much e nthusiastic deli g ht, q uartetts have heott recently heard far more effectively in other places : 0 4 at the Philharmonic Society , an d with other g entlemen P al l Mr. Loder at the leading instrument. Bes id es , at the hil.harmonic they might have treated us to a quartett not quit e so much hacked as this has been. The vocal music ,t theses concerts is never of the first-rate order ; at this it Was scarcely second-rate. The best thing of the night, h l ,°_wever, i l l this department was Winter's quintetto , from " OpferPest," by Miss Birch, Mrs. Shaw, Mr. Sapio, Parry, jun.., and Mr. E. Seguin. Miss Birch is making :el): rapid progress; so is Mr. Sapio, but in a contrary di rection. Th e terzetto, Tremate." of Beethoven , in which Alms Birch also sustained the principal part, was m uch ap plauded. Hi s R oyal Highness-, the Duke of Cambridge, was present tht thi s concert. He sat in the Royal box , but came driven into the room, and sat near the orchestra, expressly for the purpose of hearing Beethoven's quartett. a hr '''' r Majesty , Queen Adelaide, has been pleased to c l?P o oint' Messrs. B uc kl ey an d Dickenson, of George-street , svei tor-square, ale-brewers to her Royal Household. f The Select Committee of the House of Commo ns, the R eduction of Postage, of which Mr. Wallace is Chair man,)), sits three times a week to take evidence on this im _rttnt subject:. The principal part of the testim on y durin g the last week ws‘s given by witnesses brought forward at the ,iVestior t , of the London Mercantile Committee on Postage. d e , Mercantile Committee is busy seeking for the best evi- Ca throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. It is han r,et that the evidence on the frightful extent o f illicit conve y t - s - e of teteers, comparatively unknown to the Post-office, and of e , W ants •of the commercial community for a g reat reduction Postage are unanswerable. ,1 48 11 lONABLE ON DIT. — It is currently sta ted in C e . rashio i table circles, that " England's richest heiress" ( Miss . •• s 13 i f • • n, grandson of the Prem i e r Duke of En g land. It fur said that a Duchess (mother of the wealthy Duke of a a r2,: — •d) b,as been i n strumental in bringing about the match, tard 'ila't the f a milies, who have not until lately passed a visiting Mil Pay visits daily. The N oble Lord, besides bein g an s h i i.s hands o me, and it will be recol lected b y our fashion- J atn e readers had the honour o f o p enin g the ball, at St. Jam es's alace, with the then Princes s Victoria, in Ma y last. ,„ estemia.T morning, about half-past ten, J. Holmes, k Ea qof North-street;Lamb's Conduit-street , was ridin g on a l e h orse alon g B ernar d- s treet, Russell-square, when me .aitilnal stumbled, and came down with such vio lence, that r Mathi Holm ie s sus t a i ne d a co mpound fracture of the rig Li ht I-se was removed, in a state of severe suffering, to reside rhea • I) Rltelit OF CoALe.— The Sunderland Herald, anno unces,,,,,, a rk iduction of two shillings per ton in the price of 1 from th e , Earl of Balcarrie's pits, at the several stations of 0a Kendal, T e 'sv itfield, and Crooklands. CLE RK or THE ORDNANCE.—A new writ was i oved la st . e i g ht for Devizes, Captain Deans Dundas having ti been appointed Clerk of the Ordnance. Now that his ap- Pointment is completed a multitude of pretensions and reports o e at an e n d . We do not believe that it was ever contem plated to appoint Colonel Evans to this office. 1 PAIRS THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—A long J ett " appears in the Morning Prints, as the Times, attempt -I?. to make a joke, calls its contemporaries, i from a Lord Itills aY , complaining of a Lord Douglas Hailyhureo . n ! for , 41 g voted in the House of Commons on the late division, till he had ag reed to pair off with the said Lord Ramsay . 1 after Eas to r. Honour is honour even among Members Parliament, .as well as among thieves; and if Lord D. 41 :!yburton had broken his word, we should have thought that i i v l e o Lord Rameay might have been justi.fiefd in which should complaining, °ll gll eve cannot possibly conceive the grief jus tifyst this Lord in wailin , through more than half a column of of all type. Lord Ram'say is, we believe, the representative lha :addingtonshire, but so nnknown is he to the world, a ai w e had to 3ook at our ParKamentary companion to ascer- V: y ri‘ l o. and what he is. Lord Brougham or the Duke of i t , gton might be excused for discussing a personal matter half a column of small type, but Lord Ramsey should be °r e Modest. He defines and discusses pairs with all the heety oa* a Scotch metaphysician. What is a pair? says e a tist . N ° l - 1 1 e Lord ; and with logical accuracy the Noble Lord t wo " e rs'iris own question. "Itis an arrangement between a t gent lemon of different politics, by w hich they t r ee, „s foe. their mutual convenience, to neutra lise their re "eetire .votes and for a stated time to absent them ,,,v Aes fr om ' Parliament." What is a representative ? to man who ought to look after the interests of his tienituents, whi,ali such Noble Lords as Lord Ramsay ne k,s:t for their " mutual convenience." The point, however, at is the pledged honour of Lord Hallyburton? And we t 5 I : . _:heen giv en t o understand, t i lough L ord Ramsa y seems tei c r"? , been ignorant of the fact, ti.:at a Call of the House sets pairs for " mutual" neglect of public duty. Well a Call ipt, d e .H ouse too k p l ace , an d released both Lords fr o m t h e i r If il ge; but so me d omes tic calamity kept Lord Ramse y from the as ' tb s e , while L o rd H a llyburton was oblige d io attend ; and kith e 15 tter voted, though the former could not, h . e is filled of Print and e loquence, which flows ove r into half a column 'lt The Chronicle supplies an instance of a Tory Lord act ed ( " Alford, having acted precisely as Lord Hallyburton seems to confirm the received opinion, that he al . (' put an end to by a Call of the House. If' it is'r'r e ri°t So, and if Lord Douglas Hallyburton have trans toP .rliamentary privileges —those sacred contrivances r a.n .l 4 e it apunity for neglecting the people's service,. and for 141 ittinß perjury and other little i m moralities—let Lord I fa - ‘ „ ° Y , venen he can resume his Parliamentary duties, corn ' - t ° the House, a-la-Maidstone, and get the majority to 1 )O Te that the Speaker be ordered to repiimand Lord al4 Hallyburton in his most solemn manner. THAMES TUNNEL We publish under authority the following account of another irruption of the River into the Thames Tunnel : At half-past six o'clock this morning the appearance of the ground, and unusual noise, as if from a rushing of water into a cavity, having taken place, the engineer's attention was drawn to the peculiar circumstances, and he therefore anti cipated a rush of water. Mr. Mason, one of the assistant engineers, who was then just going on duty, with some active miners, attempted to take means to prevent an irruption, but finding it useless, he thought it necessary to order the work men to retreat, and which they did, in an orderly manner, by the safety-platforms erected by Mr. Brunel for the passage of the workmen in case of danger, and they ascended to the top of the shaft without any personal injury having happened to a single individual, although between 60 and 70 persons were in the works at the time. In about a quarter of an hour after wards the water gradually filled the Tunnel. Active operations were immediately commenced for filling up the aperture in the bed of the River, as a quantity of clay had been already collected near the spot, for the purpose of forming the proposed covering towards the north shore, and which is not yet completed. COAL MONOPOLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I see by the printed Coal List of last night that the following Wallsends from Sunderland, all sold at 28s.:— Braddyll's Hettons. Hettons. Lambtons. Russell's Hettons. Hartlepool Wallsend also sold at 28s. While from Newcastle—. Gosforth Wallsend sold at 245. Heaton, ditto, 245. 3d. Graus, ditto, 225. 3d. Hilda, ditto, 21s. 6d. Killingworth, ditto, 21s. 9d., 225. and 225. 3d. Lanchester, ditto, 21s. Northumberland, ditto, 21s. Pearith, ditto, 19a. 9d. Perkins, ditto, 20s. 6d. Walker, ditto, 225. 6d. Whence comes this disproportion of from 15 to 35 per cent. between the Tyne and Wear coals now? It used to be from 10 to 15 per cent., and I remember it at less than that. Surely some reaction will take place and a change happen, or else it will be said the present Parliamentary Coal Committee, like tinkers, in mending one hole, have opened half a dozen. 20th March, 1838 CARBONARIUS. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. Deit, March 19.—Wind moderate.—Arrived, and pro.. ceeded for the river, the John, White, from Mauritius ; Mary, Robert son, from Mauritius to Leith ; Emma, Goodman, from South Seas. Arrived and remains, the Antaby, Wear, from Hull to Oporto. Came down from the river, the Coquette, Hitchene, for the river Gambia, and remains with the Henry, for Hobart-Town. Put back, the Planet, Freeman, for Jamaica, and remains. Poarsnotyru, Mancrt 17.—Wind W.N. W., fresh breezes and fine.— Arrived her Majesty's brig Lily, from a cruise ; L'lndt , strie, Le Dan, from Fecamp. Sailed the John Marshall, Parey, for Antwerp. 18.— Wind W., fine.—Arrived the Gleaner, Robinson, from Bristol, and sailed for Havre de Grace. Sailed the Gladiator, Britten, for New York. 19.—Wind, S.S.E. to W., fine.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Modeste, from the Eastward. Passed by, the Airy, Nicholson, from Rio Janeiro, for Hamburg, sailed 15th Jan. in company with the schooner Halcyon, on the 24th Jan. in lat. 24 S., lon. 30 W., spoke the Catherine of and from Liverpool for Madras on the 6th March in lat. 38'57 N. lon. 30 W., the Hamburgh ship Amaudus, the Caroline, from Valparaiso, for Bristol. On the 10th March, lat. 49'5 lon. 70 W., the Minerva of Liverpool. The Janthe, M`Kenzie, came off' the patent slip to-day, having completed her repairs ; she will commence loading to-inorrow. PLYMOUTH, Mums 18.—Wind W.—Arrived the Ilirondelle, Mat. thews, from Demerara to London, with loss of sails. Sailed her Majesty's ship Volage, for the East Indies. 16. Wind N. W.—Arrived the John Barry, Robson, from Kew Zealand, Nov. 19, and Pernam buco Feb. 2; Gem, Humphreys, from Dunkirk ; her Majesty's ship Nolage, from Sheerness. 17. Put back the Acorn, Wood, for Oporto. 18. Sailed the Europe, Castes, for Havre. The Gazelle, of Liverpool, sailed from Pernambuco for Hamburg, in company with the John Barry. FALMOUTH, MARCH 19.—Wind S.S.E. to N.N. W., the former part moderate, the •latter strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Tagus steamer, Symons, from Gibraltar—left the 10th, Cadiz 11th, Lisbon 14th, Oporto and Vigo 15th inst. ; Tynelate, Watson, from Honduras for London—left January 22, with stern stove, and loss of boats, bul warks, stanchions, sails, spars, &c., the master and one seaman killed, and one seaman washed overboard, having been struck by a heavy sea, February 12, in lat. 134. 27. N., long. 63. 17. N. Vessels spoken with.—The Brig Ann, Maunder, of Liverpool, for Limerick, Feb. 20, in lat. 36. 3. N., long. 45. 43., W. ; Feb. 18, in lat. 35. 20. N., long. 55. 14., %V., the brig Constitution, of Halifax, short of water and pro visions ; March 15, in lat. 48. 42., N., long. 11. 59., W., the ship Westmoreland, from Havre de Grace to New Orleans, out 14 days, by the Tyne. The Tagus steamer passed on the 11th inst., off Cape St. Vincent, the Iberia steamer, and on the Ibth, off' Viana, the Bra. ganza steamer. LIVERPOOL, Mutest 19.—Wind N.N.W., light.—Arrived off port the Orient, from Bombay ; Laurel, from Savanilla ; Montezuma, from Charleston ; Abeona, from Charleston ; John Porter, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Britannia, from Savannah ; Robert Isaac, from Se. vannah. Sailed the Napoleon, for Charleston ; American, for New York ; Grafton, for Savannah; Maryland, for New Orleans; Potomac, for New Orleans; and Hardware, for La Guayra. MARGATE, M►Rcit 19.—Arrived off port Alice, Thomas, Limerick. YOUGHAL, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Reward, Finn, from London. SLIGO, MARCH 17.—Arrived the Hawk, Sun, from London ; Indus try, Rowland, from London; George, Bennett, from London ; and An. drew Nugent, Crangle, from London. SVIANAGE, MARCH 17.—Arrived off port the Egbert, Vauline, ftom Mauritius. HULL, Mancu 19.—The top and upper part of a lower-mast, with the shrouds, part of a topmast, and broken yard, painted white, and some small spars, were picked up three miles north of the Dudgeon, by the Jupiter, Matthewman, arrived here from Yarmouth : _ . GUERNSEY, MARCO 14.—The Minerva, late Carter, bound to St. Michael's, put back today, having been struck on the 24th ult., in lat. 31, long. 25, which carried away the master and one of the crew, with loss of boate, bulwarks, &c, CORK, Kitten 17.—The William Donaldson, Matthews, from Glou cester to Limerick, in working into this port yesterday, got on the rocks near Carlisle, but was assisted off, with loss of an anchor, and towed in by the Air steamer. The Harriett (schooner), from Cardiff, is wrecked on the coast of Algarve:. The Idea, Scribner, from Liverpool, put into Cork leaky, &c. (out seven weeks)—bound to New York. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S-YESTERDi r. Reports of all sorts are rife, as is usual, at the opening of the season, but the only effect they have had has been to send D'Eg ville down several points. The Cobweb colt was backed at 7to 4, being almost 2 to 1, for the Riddlesworth ; but this is owing to the circumstance of there being no other " Cracks" in the race. A brisk day, with full attendance, closed as quoted : THE RIDDLESWORTH. 2 to 1 on Cobweb colt—take 45 to 20 THE DERRY. 6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Cobweb colt—take 13 to 2 11 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—taken 16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham—taken & after offered 20 to 1 agst Ld Exeter's Alemdar—taken 27 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Bamboo—offered 30 to 1 agst Mr. Worrall's Dormouse--taken and after offered 30 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Bullion—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Mono Adam—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville—offered 35 to 1 agst Sir J. Mills's Volunteer—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Quo Minus—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. A. Smith's Cracker—offered 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby 50 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Tranby's dam colt—offered 1000 to 10 agst Mr. W. Scott's Albemarle—offered 1000 to 10 agst Lord Wilton's Davie Gellatley 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Gurney's Surprise 1000 to 10 agst Jagger—taken 1000 to 12 agst Mr. Sowerby's Caligula—taken 1000 t• 15 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amata—taken 8000 to 71 agst Mr. W. Edwards's Drum-major—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Lambden's Dromedary—taken & after offered 1000 to 5 agst Lord Chesterfield's c. out of Baby's dam—taken 4000 to 35 agst Mr Poynts's Camel colt 4 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's lot 1000 to 35 agst Conservator and Gonfalon—taken 1000 to 800 on Young Rowton agst Alemdar—taken 900 to 800 on Early Bird agst lon—taken 1000 to 20 agst Early Bird and Unique winning Derby and Oaks 10 to 1 offered agst Grey Momus, and the same agst Nonplus— take 5 to 1 about the two Just as the room closed Bullion was backed at 25 to 1. THE OAKS. 7i to 1 offered on the field 8 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Callisto—taken 9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Glenara—taken 10 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Unique—offered 12 to 1 agst Lord Berners' filly—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's Ninny—taken l 4 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's itowton's dam filly—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Brown Duchess—taken The Underlay stud will be brought to the hammer in the course of the ensuing summer, but it is not yet decided when or where, kr. Nowell having determined finally to retire from all connection with the turf. HUNTING 27-----PPOINi.2IIENTS. The Hambledon hounds meet on Friday at Westbury House ; Saturday, at Burseldon Windmill —half-past 10. The H. H. hounds on Thursday at Newton Common ; Saturday, at Chilton Old House—half-past 10. The N. F. hounds on Thursday at Stony Cross ; Saturday, at Bowlesbury Farm--half-past 10. Sir J. Cope's hounds on Friday at Compton ; Saturday, at Mat tingley Green-1 1 . The Craven hounds on Friday at Cbaddleworth Gate ; Saturday, at Aiaville's Farm—half-past 10. The Vine Hounds on Friday at Braml ey —h a l f-past 10. The Heythrop hou nds on Friday at Farmington Grove. The Monmoathshire hounds on h riday at Plenissi Plind Wood-10. The Lambton hounds on Thursday at Great Stanton ; Friday, at Bradbury Bridge ; Saturday, at Fishhurn-11. The Northumberland Hounds , on Friday at M art f en Piers— b f-p. lO The Haydon hounds on Saturday at West Dipton-9. The Galewood hounds on Friday at Nuthank Whim—half-p.lO. The Alnwick hounds on Thursday at Acton —half-past 10. Mr. Watson's hounds on Thursday at the Kennel-9. Lord Moreton's hounds on Thursday at the Seven Bridges ; Saturday, at Bascot. at Warkington ; Sa turTdhaye,Na"otrik,iallnAdiAooirn_styhallif.opuansdtsloon. The Eddlethorpe on Friday Thursday at Mr.Bosville's, Th orpe —hf- p .lO. The Boroughbridge harr iers on Friday at Assenby—half-p. 10. The Wallsend harriers on Thursday at Benton Bridge-10. The Pantykendy hounds on Thursday at Pale Wood, near Ta vernspite-9. Mr. Wyndham's hounds on Saturday at Wardour, Twelve Acre Lodge—half-past 10. I Mr. Codrington's hounds on Friday at Fowley-10. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1838. MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET. ( From the Morning Papers of this day, Tuesday.) TlMES. —lnsurances have been effected at Lloyd's for about 600,0001. in specie shipped for the United States by the three last packets of the London line. Some curiosity was excited in Liverpool by insurances effected at the Lloyd's there on p.ccoe.nt of the same parties for 50,0001. more shipped by the *Mediator, one of the London line of packets. It ap pears that considerable exportations of specie arc making also from Liverpool to the United States. By the last accounts from Washington it appears that the subject of Mr. Biddle's bank has been brought before Con gress, under a report from the Judiciary Committee of the Se nate relative to the use which it seems he continues to make of the notes of the old United States Bank, the name of which he still assumes, under a Charter granted by the State of Pennsylvania, though the old Charter—by which those notes were sanctioned—has long expired. It is pro posed, in the Bill which accompanied this Report, to make the re-issuing of these, or similar notes, here after, punishable with imprisonment. Mr. Biddle is charged, in the report, with having 20,000,000 dollars of these notes under his control, and with putting them into the hands of his branch banks and agents, who exchange them for the notes of the local state banks, who are kept from a re sumption of cash payments by a threat of having them thrown in upon them. He is thus enabled to keep the state banks in check, and to buy up for his own purposes the merchandise and produce of the country. In a report on the trade of New York it is shown that it has fallen off nearly one-half in 1837 compared with 1836, the imports being 118,000,000 in 1836, and 68,000,000 dollars in 1837. The difference in duties received by the Government in the latter year is 7,600,000 dollars. The Grand Jury of Boston have indicted the President and four of the Directors of the Franklin Bank, the report en which we lately gave an abstract of, for official misdemeanour and criminal neglect of duly, in certifying a false return made by the cashier of that bank to the Legislature. They were arrested and bailed in the sum of 2,000 dollars each. MORNING Posr.—The news from Rio Janeiro was consi , dered more satisfactory than any that had been received from that direction for some time past. In addition to what has been already made public, we learn, through the medium of a mercantile letter, dated the 19th of January, that there was some reason to hope the insurrectionary proceedings at Bahia had been put an end to. It is stated that a steam-vessel was entering the port from Bahia with colours flying, a circum stance from which it was inferred by many that everything there had been quietly settled. Business was improving most materially in every department of commerce, especially in the produce market. We take the following review of affairs from a letter received at the North and South American Coffee house, the general accuracy of which may be relied on : " Our import trade has been brisk on the whole, especially for cotton and linen manufactures, flour, beer, and butter, whilst wines, ironmongery, and iron, have been dull. The last-named article is rather improving. Our stocks of foreign merchandise continue to be light. The demand for the pro duce of the country has been animated, and large purchases of coffee, sugar, and hides have been made, at prices high in comparison with the quotations received from Europe. American vessels are beginning to arrive more freely, bring ing for investment (chiefly in coffee) flour, grey cottons, tea, tobacco, some India piece goods, specie, United States Bank bills and credits. The exchange has continued at 27+ to upon London, 345 on Paris, and 640 on Hamburgh, at which considerable sums have been passed by her Majesty's ship Acton, subsequent vessels to Europe, and the present packet (the Lyra). The local stock rose almost immediately after the payment of the dividends from 1 to 21 per cent., and is now nearly as high, ex dividend, as it ruled with the divi dend included. It is expected to continue to advance, it being pretty well understood that the present Minister of Fi nance will not require to issue fresh bonds for any part of the credit voted by the Chambers of 4,558 contos of reis (about 500,0001.) until after the re-assembling of the Legislature, when he will propose certain financial measures and regula tions, which, if he carries them, as he in all probability will, must tend to raise the price of stock, and that considerably. When, in September, he accepted office, he laid before the Chambers in the most candid and able manner the state of the treasury, and showed that he had to remit to the Govern ment agents, for arrears, dividends, and other purposes, be fore the close of the year about 200,0001., which it was sup posed he could not do without great sacrifices, or creating new Stock. However, he has accomplished it, without re sorting to either, and the account-current with the London agents shows at this moment a balance in favour of the Go vernment. He has remitted, is remitting (by this p ac k e t about 30,0000, and will continue to remit promptly for the dividends due in London next April, and so sensible are he and his colleagues of the value of public credit that no means will be left unemployed to raise it and keep it at the highest possible pitch. This much I can communicate upon what I deem very good authority. Our latest dates from London are to the 12th of November. Six per Cent. Stock, ex. div., 871 buyers; Five per Cent. ditto, 71 ; Ex change on London, 27+ to 27-?,-; Coffee, first quality, 3,300 to 4,600; Sugar, R., 2,900 to 3,000; ditto, M., 1,700 ; and hides, 190 to 230." MORNING CHRONICLE.—We are truly glad to And that the Bank of England has at length determined to make a ship ment of gold to the United States. This will not only be the means of giving life and animation in the United States, but will lead to extensive orders for our various manufactures. It is evidently the harbinger of more cheerful times. The Bank intend to send 1,000,000/. ; Messrs. Rothschild, 250,0001. ; and various other firms different amounts, making, in the aggregate, about 2,000,0001. sterling, we understand. The whole, we believe, is consigned to Messrs. Prime, Ward and King; but a portion of it, report says, is on account of the Government, to meet bills from Canada. The effect produced by this operation in the United States will be quite astonishing. The resumption of cash pay ments has been the great desideratum for a long time, but the difficulty of insuring permanency to so vital a mea sure has delayed it. At a public meeting held at Boston on the 20th ult., on this sub ject , one of the resolutions adopted was :—" That it is impossible for the b an k s to resume specie payments by curtailment, because curtail ment begets panic and destroys confidence, and because general and generous confidence is indispensable to precede, to accompany, and to follow the resumption." This has been our own view of the matter, as the public will remember, but the difficulty is now overcome; and notwithstanding the Bank of England is reprehended by the City correspondent of the Times for adopting this measure, in another part of the same paper it will be seen that the return to specie payments is what the Americans require to set all energies in motion. Our Contemporary is, no doubt,:greatly annoyed at this event, as it will wholly frustrate all his gloomy predictions and an ticipations, especially as regards the liquidation of debts due to this country ; for he must plainly see that the cir culation of the precious metals throughout the United States will speedily revive confidence, and thereby enable those indebted to this country to realise their assets and liquidate the claims upon them. Notwithstanding the stagnation of almost every kind of business which has existed in the United States the lc its ayposition say t hat a one n the e of period debts of the susp ended American firms in London have been working off we ss and as e w o e m b p e a l r i believe with e establishments, whose affairs our C on t emporary regarded as hopeless and forlorn, has reduced its liabiliti es to a b out 150/., to nothing, in fact , the firm was compelled to yield to the pressure of the times. The Americans have strained every nerve to pay off their debts. They have refrained from entering into new engage sacrificed everything to the one grand •th at of and point, of maintaining their credit. We have so repeatedly, however, alluded to this subject that it is unnecessary to dwell at any length upon it now; but we call attention to the annexed ex tract from the New York Journal of ..owneree of the 24th ult., which gives an impartial description of the state of affairs, and corroborates all that we have said on various occasions : " If any man has cash in his pocket, or city acceptances, and wants bargains in dry goods, he can get them at our auc tion offices or jobbers stores. The sacrifices are very great ; such as in our judgment the prospect ahead does not warrant, and such as will not soon he made again. We do not think there is much to brag of in the assortment of goods on sale in our market, though it is probably quite as good here as anywhere. In truth the stock of foreign manufactures in the the country is very small, and the assortment very much broken. Importers and jobbers are but little inclined to act, being disposed to wait until the impulses without set them in motion. The importations are very small. The mer chants from the interior will many of them buythan the y would less f would do if their own courage was • su o st n aine by sympathy of courage and fresh stocks of goods the Atlantic. The result of all thiswill be, that the old stocks throughout will be lightly replenished, and e• k d and pieculled over until they are pretty much gone, and the country will he more destitute of goods than it ha s b een s i nce 1819. The demand will soon require a new state of • •and • activity, the importations must be large, to supply the great deficiency. Business is de ranged. Old associations and aeg uaintanceships are broken u p, but the d emands of the country must, ere long, correct these difficulties. Many of our jobbers are now giving cre dits to distant m erc h ants ; but it cannot be expected that, after so many failure s , f u ll conf i dence should immediately be exer cised towards all who deserve it. Some unnecessary dread is likely to be felt of a fire, which has made such dreadful havoc. A return to specie payments will be the signal for returning confidence. Until then the feeling of insecurit • cannot, and in fact should not, be w dissipated." d . • •ate d. " In discussing these matters it should never be forgotten how completely th e two countr i es are now identified in interest ; and it is as much for the benefit of English trade that assist ance should be rendered to the merchants of New York, as to tl:e merchants of London, Liverpool, or Leeds. It is a saying in Lancashire that New York is Liverpool,Liverpool •is and New York. MORNING HERALD. —The determination of the Bank of England to export bullion on their own account to the United in consequence of th e favo ura bl e na t ure o f t h e ex change between th e two countr i es f or t h at operat i on, h as c Bt r t e l at e e s, d some considerable degree of attention ; and, perhaps, the snore so, i nasmuc h as i t was d ou b te d on Saturday by many well-informed parties that the Bank di rec ti on h a d t h e opera tion in immediate contemplation. By many this operation is viewed as a clever mode of em ploying a surplus portion of their stock of bullion, whilst others have denounced it as totally incongruous with the fixed duties of the Bank of England. Well informed and practised men consider the operation, under the present circumstances of our commercial relations, to be perfectly legitimate, since it may have the effect of stemming at once the tide of the precious metals towards the United States, where we have sufficient experience that the market is soon glutted ; but as a general principle this mode of employing the accumulation of precious metals is considered to be foreign to the strict duties of the Bank of England, inasmuch as a pretended national establishment, it ought not to extend its sphere of business to foreign countries. LITERATURE ABBEY OF HOLYROOD. Courtoy, Edinburgh, 1838. "It is intended," says the author, "in the following pages to combine something of a History with a Guide book. Their publication has resulted from the proprietor having often had occasisn to observe the visitors to the Chapel Royal were desirous of obtaining more information in regard to it and the environs than was contained in any description hitherto published." The author's idea is a good one, and he has worked it out in a very skilful, pains taking manner. This work is historical, as well as being a useful, practical Guide-book, and furnishes us with much curious information respecting the laws and privileges of the Sanctuary of Holyrood. RICH ENOUGH—TEACHER'S TALES. Green, London, 1838. Clever children's tales, written in a simple, unaffected style, well adapted to the capacity of early childhood. MEMOIRS of the BEAUTIES of the COURT of CHARLES the SECOND. Part 11. Colburn, London, 1836. Mrs. Jameson is the author of this Work, which is a guarantee for its being livelily and elegantly written. It is a collection of biographical sketches of the celebrated Beauties of the Court of Charles the Second, and is em bellished, each successive Part, with three engravings from the paintings of Sir Peter Lely and the other fashionable artists of the day. The one before us contains portraits of Lady Denham, Nell Gwynn, and the Duchesses of Somer set and Richmond—sleepy, voluptuous-looking beauties, such as Charles and his licentious Court were so prone to admire. That of Nell is the best, because it more closely resembles the idea we entertain of her, from the various gossiping memoirs and descriptions of contemporary writers. PARLIAMENTARY TOUCHSTONE. Thomas, London, 1838. A highly useful work, which possesses this great advan tage over every other work of a similar character —namely, that instead of characterising the political opinions or party predilections of the various Members of the House of Commons by a descriptive epithet borrowed from mere ordinary sources of information, it seeks them in the only authentic channel—the spoken or written avowals of the parties themselves. The work is published in a cheap and commodious form. CORN LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,-1 rejoice to see, that instead of the Corn-laws being called by the milk-and-water appellation " impolitic," they and their abettors are beginning to be called by their right name, " Diabolicals." The laws were carried against the voice of the people, at the point of the bayonet, and who can tell how long before the bayonet shall repeal them ? Ob servers of nature say retribution comes in kind. As a suffering merchant and ship-owner I give you the fol lowing, as one of the many practical workings of the " Dia bolicals :" Before me is the last Havannah Price Current (3d ult.), containing one week's list of imports, and of the 53 ships which entered that port from foreign places in the week, only one was under the British flag, and among the 53 cargoes not a single article was of British produce or manufacture. The solitary English vessel was only 87 tons, and her cargo was Mexican beef and tallow. Thirty.six of the 53 ships were under the Belgian, Prussian, Hamburgher, and American flags, and among the cargoes were the following goods, all of which were of German, Belgian, Russian and Italian manu facture. 1,042 dozen knives. 1,255 cwt. twine and cordage. 1,060 bars iron. 27,300 lbs. nails. 3,023 reams, besides 181 bales and boxes paper. 1,700 linen bags. 3,360 pieces ribbons. 113,986 glass and stone decanters, bottles, and jugs. A large quantity of smaller glass wares. 8,711 dozen pair stockings, chiefly cotton. 21,202 pieces, besides Z cotton, linen, and woollen piece goods 231 boxes and bales S —chiefly of German manufacture. A large quantity of shirts, &c. &c. The same Price Current gives a list of ships in the port, and I find the number to be 98—of which only two are British, the remaining 96 being Hamburghers, Prussian, Danish, Dutch, Austrian, Belgian, French, Spanish, and American. Now, but for the infamous and diabolical Corn-laws, the greater part of those goods would have been of British manu facture, would have employed British merchants' capital, aid not only would the carrying those goods have been in British bottoms, but more British ships would be employed to bring returns, in the bulky articles of Havannah produce (sugar and coffee), to various European ports, at such remunerating rates of freight as would soon prove to the Shipowner's So ciety how much more valuable is a double carrying trade on long voy ages , th an th e f r i g htf u l A mer i c an timber trade, which causes so much loss of life, but which they so foolishly cherish. If England will not receive foreign corn and timber, of course foreigners are not to be blamed for availing of their cheap food to become manufacturers—or for trading to foreign countries to find employment for their ships and seamen. And, within the last twelve months, many more foreign ships than British have obtained the high rates of freight in Brazil; 51. and 6/. per ton, for sugar, coffee, &c., to Europe. The foreign ship too from the impolicy of the timber duties is becoming prepared for carrying such cargoes—free from damage. The dearness of timber in England compels its economy, and hence British ships do not get such good decks, spars, &c., &c., as foreigners. But the cruelty and injustice of the Corn-laws must ere long be so felt by the English labourer, the English mechanic, and the English manufacturer, as to mako them speak in a voice of thunder, and then, perchance, they may take the ra. tribution into their own hands. Your reader, A. B. C. New Broad-streat, 17th March, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—There is now a Bill pending in Parliament, brought into the Honourable House by Sir H. Verney, for the pur pose of compelling owners of cottages to pay parochial rates. Such a Bill has been undertaken before by a certain class of politicians, and pursued with as much ardour and pertinacity as if the safety of the empire depended on the payment of a few rates, trifling in amount, and oppressive in their nature. But hitherto the House have had the good sense to reject all such attempts. It would almost appear that some gentlemen consider themselves as sent to the Honourable House for the sole purpose to oppress. They watch the poor as a prey, and suffer none to escape tribute. But when hundreds of thou sands are being voted away for mere pageantry and vanity, they remain as mute as fishes, yet never fail to add their nod w hen an opportunity offers to crush the poor. Those gentle men are totally blind to every thing of moment or utility, whilst they are eagle-eyed to every, the least, matter touching their own interest, as the New Poor Laws and the Corn Laws sufficiently prove; their selfish cravings are insatiable; they are not even ashamed, in order to save their own pockets, of drawing from the pockets of the poorest person in the king dom. Not content with plundering the people of vast sums in the shape of Corn Laws, they now insist that the poor shall contribute to keep the poor. " 0 but man I Proud man Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As makes the angels weep." And now I come to a serious part of my subject, namely, " The Corn Laws," which are exclaimed against on every hand, and by every tongue, as the most oppressive laws that ever an indus trious nation were cursed with. These laws may be properly named laws for robbing the poor to fatten the rich. Yet, Sir, I think they may be turned to a much better account. Let all the present poor-rates cease, and hereafter let a rate be laid on land only, out of which let all the poor be maintained, not as a favour, but as from a fund to which they have already con tributed far more than sufficient for that purpose. Thus, Sir, instead of shamefully paying vast sums for the benefit of the rich oppressor only, we shall have the supreme pleasure to know that we, at the same time, contribute to the poor. The land-owners by the Corn Laws do not gain less than sixteen or eighteen millions annually; and under the worst management, and the worst times, the poor did not cost more than eight millions a-year, so that the land-owner would have ample rea son to congratulate himself on the benefit of the proposed compromise. The plan of uniting the Poor Laws with thelCorn Laws would be attended with the advantage of every man, whether rich or poor, whether fund-holder, merchant, trades man, or whatever his calling or pursuits in life, all would have to contribute to the maint enance o f p oor , and that exac tly in proportion to his consumption. March, 1838. ALPHA. COAL MONOPOLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta—Mr. Northhouse's suggestion (No. 6.) " That such ',Ater:, with an offer for sale, be exposed for public inspection in the said Coal Market on its being received," is very much the same as the former Market Act, of the Clerk putting IT the Copy of the Certificate in the Market—only that this is better, because while the ship is coming up to Gravesend or above the Nore Light the cargo is " On Sale." He goes on— On the same cargo being declared to be sold, the said vessel shall be allowed to take its berth (i. c. proceed up the River to any Coal Wharf or into the Pool) and be weighed and de livered without loss of time, but that no vessel shall be allowed to enter the port (i. e. proceed above Gravesend) until such cargo be so ctoclared to be sold." I am sure that this bye-law, if made by the Corporation, would break up the combination, and that we should never a l :alit see 500 sail of loaded colliers laying spread over between Gravesend and Limehouse.--I am, your Well-wisher. CARBONARIUS. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have ordered extensive improvements in the Royal Gardens at Kew. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS ' The Standard is furious at the decision of the Dublin Com mittee not to admit the votes of 92 freemen, registered within six months before the election, which the merest tryo in these ' matters knows to be indispensable to the right of voting under the Irish Reform Act. The Standard says, these freemen have as good right to thei r f ranc hi se as to th e s h oes they wear. Very likely ! We know no men so likely to wear shoes not paid for as the beggarly freemen of the rotten corporation of , Dublin. Our Contemporary's rage betrays his party. It is perfectly clear now that had the Tories predominated on this Committee, the clearest principles of law and justice would have been trodden in the mire. A Tory Committee would have placed every single man of the 92 freemen in question upon the poll, as certainly as the earth turns on its axis, and with as sovereign a scorn for the law or equity of the case as sop's cock had for the jewel, or an Orange newspaper has for truth. This question lies in a nutshell. Re gistration six months before the election is indis pensable under the statute ; these freemen were regis tered within the time appointed ; and consequently their right to vote was just as good as ours to vote for the Pre sident of the American Congress, but not a jot better. News papers are not the proper organs for discussing legal questions; but the present case is one in which it would be particularly absurd in us to involve our readers in the mazes of a law argument, as the point involved is one upon which it is utterly impossible that any two lawyers, not Tories of alb most inveterate description, or personally interested in the matter, could possibly differ in opinion. We venture to assert that but one lawyer of the two bars takes a different view of the question from the:Committee ; and that lawyer is Mr. West, one of the defeated candidates ! There are men of such a constitution of mind that they would hold two and two to be five, if it served their interest to main tain such a position. God forbid that such a man should ever put on the Irish ermine 1 The votes of these ninety-two low Orangemen would never have been tendered at all but upon the profligate speculation that a Committee might chance to be struck so utterly regardless of sense and decency as to place them afterwards upon the poll. It was a new thought to bring up this class of freemen at the last election. The thing was never dreamed of at the first contested election after the Reform Act, nor at the election in 1835, when the Tories were in office. This class of freemen was as plentiful as blackberries, but nobody thought they were good for voting, or worth the bribes without which it is notorious that not even the Protestant interest would induce these respectable gentle men to poll for St. Paul himself. Thus it was twice practi cally admitted that these freemen were disentitled to vote. " Our antagonists," says Mr. O'Connell in his excellent letter, " admitted it in the most emphatic way ; that is, by acting upon such admission adversely to their own interests." But is this all? No ! If this was a good and lawful class of voters, " with as good a right to their franchise as to the shoes on their feet" (supposing them in the enjoyment of that decent article of apparel), how did it hap pen that so unexceptionable a phalanx was kept back until the last hour of the last day of the election ? Why was not this sacred band placed in the post of honour, upon the edge of battle, in the front of Messrs, West and Hamilton's loyal and constitutional supporters? They were kept back until the fifth day, because Messrs. West and Hamilton knew that their right to vote was not worth a straw, and they were brought to the poll then because defeat was inevitable : their votes were tendered, not for the election—for there were not enough of them to turn the scale, and, be sides, the assessor had decided to reject them—but for the chance of an unscrupulous Committee ! "in the hope," as Mr. O'Connell says most truly, "of an outrageous Tory Com mittee ;" for outrageous, indeed, the Committee should have been from whick a decision was to have been expected against the sitting Members upon such a point. The Tories are frantic because the Spottiswoode conspiracy has been so egre gious a failure. Such an amazing expenditure of knavery, and no return—no profit !—Morning Chronicle. The answer given last night by Lord John Russell to Lord Chandos is calculated to excite some curiosity. It appears that Lord Durham's gigantic outfit and threatened invasion of the next two or three successive budgets has at length so fright ened the Lords of the Treasury, that Lord Glenelg is to make a special report upon the subject, which Lord John Russell has promised, for the satisfaction of Lord Chandos, to lay upon the table of the House of Commons, no doubt with a view to some solid retrenchment of that prodigality which had been ushered in with the flourishing assurance that the Noble Captain- General would "accept no salary." A fool if he did accept one salary, when he could make a bargain by which the mate rials of half a dozen salaries will be at his Lordship's service. However, a " report" from Lord Glenelg will be some fun at least ; and a fresh set of instructions, bespoke by Sir R. Peel, after he had smashed the old ones, will be still richer fun.— Times. We have before us an Official Report, published under the sanction of the Metropolitan Police Office, headed " Criminal Returns." It comprehends the " number of persons taken into custody by the Metropolitan Police, and the results, in the year 1837, with comparative statements for the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1837." One of the new features of this Report is a test of the effect of education or the contrary. It classifies, under an especial head, the age, sex, and degree of instruction of all the persons taken into cus tody, summarily convicted, and tried and convicted during the year 1837. This statistical return furnishes materials for com mentary to which we shall take occasion of adverting. But the most painful feature of the Report, is the proof which it supplies of the continual augmentation of juvenile offenders. It appears, from one of the Inspector's Reports, that of 2,356 committals in 1837, no less than 2,146 were for of fences against property without violence ; 1,669 of these were simple larcenies, and the perpetrators, generally, juvenile offenders ; some of the charges were stealing oranges, a few apples, bunns, or a few halfpence. At the Sessions just closed, a child was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to three months' imprisonment for stealing a few ounces of acidulated drops. This alarming and deplorable fact is cor roborated by a late statistical statement of Lord J. Russell in bringing forward his excellent Bill for the better administra tion of justice at quarter sessions throughout England and Wales. The details showed the great increase of cases tried at quarter sessions, of which a large proportion were the cases of juvenile offenders. It may be summarily stated that his Lordship proved that these cases had increased from 1,073 to 13,044. Lord John Russell's Bill will go far to contribute a remedy to this afflicting social malady. But will it go far enough ? We are satisfied of the negative. It cannot reach the root of the evil. There is, like the head-money and blood money, stimulant at work which prompts the astounding aug mentation of trials for petty offences by children in the County Courts. This Lord J. Russell's Bill will tend to mitigate or repress. It is shocking to reflect that these children, for offences caused by the laxity of parental restraint, or neglected educa tion, are subjected to an imprisonment which tends to harden them, to deprave their minds, and to render them callous to all moral restraints and future consequences. The rest of the evil lies chiefly in the want of a general system of education of which infant schools, on a better organized plan than the present, ought to form a vital part. The confinement of children of tender age in prison, whether the secluded, the silent, or the gregarious system, is awful to contemplate. They are sure to be lost for life. Of what use in society can they be after subjection to such a penalty ? The human shoot is mildewed and blasted for ever. The subject is worthy of the interference of another Howard. We advocate the se cluded cell alone for the murderer. Is the infant that steals an apple or a toy to be treated in the same manner? Is this an equal measure of punishment ? Draco's system of inflict ing death for a trifle or a crime (the first because it deserved death—the last because he had no severer punishment) wa not a whit more savage, ruthless, unreasonable, and detes table.--Morning Advertiser. The question which Lord Ingestre put in the House the the other night was misreported in this paper. It did not re fer to the order given by the Admiralty to the British cruisers on the coast of Spain to intercept supplies to Don Carlos, but to the order issued in 1835, by which Captains serving on that station were commanded to refuse refuge to Don Carlos, should he seek it at their hands. This order was intended as a set-off against the Durango Decree, but we arc sure that our readers will consider it in every respect as reprehensible as that remarkable paper. It is a virtual denunciation of Don Carlos, the expression of impotent malice against a Prince who had the courage to answer the call of his people, and to defend the birthright of his children. Fortunately Don Car los is now placed beyond the anger or protection of the Bri tish Government ; but if he had failed, and the Christino bloodhounds hunted him to the coast, would not our Ministers, in refusing him a refuge in our ships, have been accessary to his murder? The Durango Decree was issued for the pur pose of preventing foreigners from embarking in a quarrel in which they had no direct interest. It has been called a blood thirsty decree; but what will be said of this mandate of the Biitish Government, by which a seal was set on the head of Don Carlos, and the general law of national humanity vio lated in his regard ?—illorning Post. The necessity of referring election petitions to some other tribunal than that which at present decides upon them, seems to be admitt e d on a ll h an d s; but the difficulty of finding one is quite as great as the necessity for it is obvious. Some per sons have thought that the subject of complaintmight be investigated before a judge and jury ; but considering th e in terminable length to which the majority of these inquiries at present extend, - what description of persons are those who, as jurymen, could be expected to give up their time to such lengthened investigations? Besides which, if party feeling is the present ground of complaint, what security is there that jurymen, even upon their oaths, will be more exempt from this bias than the persons who are at present sworn to try the issue ? The Judges themselves, without the intervention of a jury, would probably form a mere competent tribunal; but it may reasonably be doubted whether at any time, but particu larly at the commencement of a new P ar li ament, when, as at the present moment, petitions are so numerous, such an addition to the duties of the judges could b y any possibility he made. Another plan, a little more feasible, is that of appointing some half z dozen sets of assessors, t o b e compose d of mem b ers of the bar of a certain standing, to which these matters may be referred in succession. But though this plan weuld pro. duce the necessary knowledge and judgment for the occasion, it may reasonably be doubted whether competent persons would consult to leave their professional business for such a kind of temporary employment ; while the lookers-up to pre ferment at the bar are generally known to have quite as much of political partisanship as some Members of Parliament themselves can have. In short the subject is one beset with difficulties; but still the necessity for alteration is so great, that we trust they will not be found insurmountable,— Mornillg Herold. LAW INTELLIGENCE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, ilf_incrr 17. lIARGREAVE V. TILE LANCASTER RAILROAD COMPANY. This was a motion by Mr. Jacob to dissolve an injunction obtained ex pante by Mr. C. Knight, to restrain the defendants from continuing their works upon a certain -piece of ground belonging to Mr. Hargreave, now in the occupation of Mr. Lindo, at Lancaster The VICE- CHANCELLOR said, that looking at the facts stated in the affidavits, he thought that as this Cout t had no equity to effect what the plaintiff sought, the motion to dilsolve the injunction must be allowed with costs, and the cross-motion to extend the injunction must be dismissed with costs. MONDAY, MARCH 19. BENT V. YOUNG. Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE appeared in support of a. demurrer to a bill of discovery, in aid of a defence to a suit befor% a foreign tribunal. From the statements in the bill it appeared that the plaintiff was the owner of a plantation at Surinam, subject to a mortgage for 10,0001. to the house of Richards, Mackintosh, and Co., and that Sir William Young, the de fendant, had purchased the mortgage debt for a sum consider ably below its amount, and had commenced, or given instruc• tions for commencing, a suit before the proper tribunal at Su rinam for the recovery of the full amount of the debt. The bill alleged that by the Dutch law, which was administered at at Surinam, the assignee of a mortgage or charge on landed estate there was only entitled to recover the amount of his purchase money with interest, although the sum due on the security might exceed that amount ; and finally, it averred that by reason of Sir W.'s continued residence in this country the defendant was unable, without the aid of an English Court of equity, to obtain personal discovery from him in aid of the in tended defence. The demurrer was supported on the ground that this Court would not be ancillary for the purpose of dis covery to a foreign tribunal. Mr. WIGRAM supported the Bill. His HONOUR allowed the demurrer. ROLLS' COURT, MARen 19. MARR V. WILLIAMS. In this case the Bill was filed for the specific performance of an agreement alleged to hare been entered into by the plain tiff and defendant to take, on certain terms, the lease of a house at St. John's Wood. The case has been before the Court in a former stage. His Lordship the Master of the Rolls, in giv ing judgment, was of opinion that the 'defence set up alto gether failed--that there must be a specific performance of the agreement—and that the defendant, who had occasioned the whole of the expense, must pay the costs of the suit. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 19. Samuel Brown Harper, whose case was reported on Saturday, came up to-day for adjudication. Ibis young man, the son of a tavern-keeper in the city, was described as an under-graduate of Cambridge and an " author." His debts, for which he had received consideration, amounted to 2,1941. He had thirty-five creditors and no debtors; but on the pro perty page of the schedule he set forth that he was the author of " Bertrand," a tragedy, which was in the hands of Mr. Fraser, the publisher (a creditor), but the copyright was of "no value." There were payments on the general balance. sheet to Clubs, for hunting and shouting expenses. He had several tailors in the schedule. He had paid for discounted renewals of bills the large amount of 8001.—He was discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Charles Sealy, William Bailey and JasephCallaghaa were charged by Henry Wood, bootmaker, Broad.street, Bloomsbury, with breaking into his shop, and stealing five pair of boots and other articles. It appeared that the complainant does not occupy the entire of ;he house, and on locking up the shop on Saturday night he left his roods safe, and went to his lodgings. The next morning he was inforr,ned by the police of what had happened, and on going to visit the rieemises, found that the middle door in the passage had been forced, open, and every thing in his shop thrown into the greatest disorder. Thomas Bandon, cheesemonger, stated that as he was looking out of his window about one o'clock on Sunday morning, he saw the prisoners standing at the passage door of the prosecutor's shop, and after a short delay the prisoner Sealy entered, and brought out a bag full of some* thing, which he handed to his companions, with which they instantly ran away. He immediately gave information, and the prisoners, who resided convenient, were taken into custody. They were ordered to be brought up again on Friday. MAR YLEBONE. Yesterday Mary Glover, Dennis Glover (her brother), and Elizabeth Glover (her mother), were brought up in cus tody and placed at the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON, the former,:- charged with stealing two feather beds, a quantity of chir, a , blankets, and other articles, from the dwelling-house of /:(Irs. Mary Marsh, 46, Park-street, Grosvenor -square, and tkle two latter with receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen. The first prisoner said the things were all her tme ; sh© bought them at different rag shops. The me.n said he knew nothing about them. They were remanded till Wednesday. Ann Finn, servant to Mr. Armour, No. 20, Old Caven dish-street, was next placed at the bar, charged with robbing her master of table linen, &c. The prisoner, who said nothing, was committed to New-. gate for trial. Yesterday Daniel Grenville, a simple-looking fellow, with a most bewitching obliquity of vision, was charged as fol lows :—Police constable Markham, S. 24, on Saturday night was on duty at Kentish Town, when he saw a number of wo men and children running in every direction, screaming out " Here's Spring-heel'd Jack." He drew his staff, and screw ing- his courage to the sticking-place, waited for the monster, whom several of the frightened women who had gathered around him pointed out as the prisoner.. Perceiving that a sort of blue froth was at his mouth, and that his features were not altogether natural, he went up to him, and, seizing him by the collar, dragged him to a butcher's shop, by the light of which he discovered that he wore a mask, embellished at the mouth with blue glazed paper. To put a stop to his capers, and as be had almost frightened one or two into.; fits, ho. thought a fit place for him was the station-house, rvad accord ingly having conveyed him thither he was locked up. The prisoner, who said he did not mean to frighten any body, was discharged with a caution, and the cause of alarm ordered to be burnt. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Jane Mott, who described herself the wife of Mr. Mott, the Poor Law Commissioner, was brought before Mr. TRAILL, charged with being drunk and disorderly ; and while in that condition using threatening language towards two tradesmen residing in Walworth. Mrs. Mott, who was well dressed, and seemed to be a wo man about fifty years of age, said that she had taken a little much on Saturday, and that it affected her ; that she had ex perienced great misfortunes in life, and was reduced from a state of affluence to one of misery. Mr. TRAILL said that Mrs. Mott must find two sureties of 301. each to keep the peace. She was then taken backwards, and locked up in one of the cells. Sir Walter Scott's monument at Edinburgh will be a splendid Gothic tower, composed entirely of the choicest beauties of Melrose Abbey, and containing a marble statue of he mighty magician himself. Last ;light an inquest was held at the Duke of Wellington, University-street, Bedford-square, before Mr. Stirling and a respectable jury, on the view of the body of Mrs. Sarah Boxhall, aged forty-three, a respectable woman, who committed suicide by hanging herself under circum stances of a very afflicting nature. It appeared from the evi dence that the deceased was the wife of a builder living in St. Pancras-street, Tottenham -court-road.. The unfortunate lady had been in a dejected state of mind for some months past, owing to constitutional causes. O•n Friday last she was discovered by her husband suspended from the rail of the bedstead. Although dreadfully agitated he cut her down, and Mr. Joy, a surgeon, was sent for, who promptly arrived, and endeavoured to restore animation,but without effect. Seve ral witnesses spoke of the dejected state of the poor woman's mind for some time past, after which the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary mental derangement." The deceased has left a numerous family to deplore her melancholy and premature end. In the whole parish of Bishopstone, near Swindon, there never has been a primrose seen to grow, though in the neighbouring parishes they abound. A stream parts Bishop stone from Hinton, and on the side of the latter primroses are to be seen by thousands. —Salisbury Herald. Sunday afternoon the remains of Teophil Ode chowski, a native of Valonia, in Poland. and aged 33, were interred in the new cemetery at Kensall-green. The de ceased had held a high tank in the Polish army, and was distinguished for the courage and intrepidity he displayed in the many engagemer.ts that took place during the Polish' struggle for liberty, and more particularly in the defence of Warsaw. Since his exile, the diseased had resided principally in Germany ; but feeling his end approa c hi ng , h e expresse d an earnest wish th a t hi s friends should convey him to Eng land, that he might, to use his own expression, " die in a land of freedom." This wish was complied with, and the deceased lived but a few days after his arrival in London. The de ceased was followed to the grave by a great number of his un fortunate countrymen and companions in arms. IVIARCII OF INTELLECT.--At a meeting hell last week at Shipston, one of the speakers, addressing the meeting after the first motion said, " he supposed it was car ried crisis. con."—Worcester Journal. Two feltowv,, having the appearance of farmers' la bourers, conducted a woman into Ludlow market on Satur day, with a halter round her waist, and publicly sold her for 3s. The purchaser was the husband's brother I The wretches afterwards adjourned to a low pot-house to refresh themselves. __Worcester Journal. rs T -• A MONSTER.—At the Northamptonshire Assizes, on the Ist inst., John Pridinore, aged 33, was charged with having attempted to drown his father. In July last, being enraged at his parents on some trifling grounds, he thrust his mother out of doors, (and uttering horrid execrations) dragged his father to a pond, and threw him head foremost into the water. The old man crawled out after his son's dep4rtwe, aid took refuge in a neighbour's house. It further appeared that the prisoner was a married man, hut had sold his wife I The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. and sentence of death was recorded. —Northampton Chronicle. The nights me still exceedingly cold ; the themo meter, which ranges between SO and GO in the day time, fall ing to within a few degrees of the freezing point in the night. LEAP YEAR IN SPITE OF TIIE ALMANAC Ks.— An Exeter Paper, published on Thursday, the Ist instant, was dated February 29. The cold has been so severe at St. Petersburg)), that for several days towards the end of February the thermometer was down as low as 28 degrees below zero of Reaumur, or 31 below zero of Fahrenheit.